Now, I'm not a herpetologist, "but"

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 115350


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<cmjohnstone at h...> wrote:
> 
> dungrollin wrote:
> The Latin (scientific) name for the Bushmaster is Lachesis muta.
> 
> Lachesis is one of the fates - The Disposer, one of the three
> Moirae. She measures the length of the thread of human life spun by
> Clotho and determines its destiny.
> 
> Ooo-er.
> 
> muta – here I need a bit of help from you clever people, as my
> Latin's rubbish. I think it comes from mutare, which means to
> shift, change or alter.
> 
> 
> Leah does a bit of Tonks-like derusting of her Latin:
> 
> A great bit of research here.  Muta- I think might mean silent, 
mute in fact. Lachesis is also given as 'the apportioner, the drawer 
of lots'
> 

Valky:
I like both interpretations, it rings true that if Jo chose Nagini 
species as carefully as we assume that her 'Lord Voldemort' would 
own a Snake with such a sinister connotations in it's species name 
as "Creeping Death" or "Destiny Changer".
 

Leah:
> As an aside, the Fates were also known as "The Weird Sisters"  -
> perhaps Nagini is the animagus form of Celestina Warbeck!
> 

Valky:
Cute! *chuckle*, I am just thinking that perhaps Jo introduced us to 
the Weird Sisters to get us thinking about the fates. 
If Lachesis is the third sister what are the names of the other two?